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Queen C Ity W Aterfront Buffalo Waterfront Corridor Initiative: A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements Waterfront Queen City Byron W. Brown, MAYOR NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES WWW.CITY-BUFFALO.COm OF TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT George E. Pataki, OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING GOVERNOR FEDERAL HIGHWAY Timothy E. Wanamaker, Joseph Boardman, ADMINISTRATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COMMISSIONER DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Final Report for the “Buffalo PARKS AND STREETS Joseph Giambra, Corridor Management Plan” COMMISSIONER (NYSDOT PIN 5756.29) April 2007 Queen City Waterfront Buffalo Waterfront Corridor Initiative: A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements Byron W. Brown, MAYOR NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES WWW.CITY-BUFFALO.COM OF TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT George E. Pataki, OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING GOVERNOR FEDERAL HIGHWAY Timothy E. Wanamaker, Joseph Boardman, ADMINISTRATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COMMISSIONER DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Final Report for the “Buffalo PARKS AND STREETS Joseph Giambra, Corridor Management Plan” COMMISSIONER (NYSDOT PIN 5756.29) April 2007 Queen City Waterfront Buffalo Waterfront Corridor Initiative: A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements DEVELOPED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF The City of Buffalo Office of Strategic Planning AND The City of Buffalo Department of Public Works DEVELOPED WITH THE CONSULTING SUPPORT OF: The prime contractor Wendel Duchscherer Architects and Engineers AND The Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo State University of New York WITH Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper (formerly Friends of the Buffalo Niagara River) VOLUME I: “QUEEN CITY WATERFRONT” PREPARED BY The Urban Design Project School of Architecture and Planning University at Buffalo, State University of New York 3435 Main Street Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214 (716) 829-3485 ext 220 www.urbandesignproject.org IN ASSOCIATION WITH Wendel Duchscherer Architects and Engineers 140 John James Audubon Parkway, #201 Amherst, NY 14228 (716) 688-0766 www.wd-ae.com A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements Table of Contents Executive Summary . .1 A Community Vision: Recapturing Buffalo’s Waterfront . .4 The Approach . .8 Methods of Work . .8 The Planning Legacy . .8 Peace Bridge Gateway Improvements Methodology . .12 Stakeholder and Public Participation . .13 Conclusion . .15 The Policy Framework: Local Waterfront Revitalization Program . .16 Background . .16 Benefits of an LWRP . .17 Policies . .17 Land Use by Sub-Area . .21 Achieving the Vision: Projects in the Buffalo Waterfront Corridor . .25 Elements of the Vision . .25 Transportation Connections . .30 Inner Harbor/Downtown . .34 Waterfront Outer Harbor/South Buffalo . .38 Buffalo River . .43 Gateway/West Side . .47 Black Rock/Riverside/Scajaquada . .54 Peace Bridge Gateway Improvement . .60 A Great Neighborhood and Grand Gateway for Buffalo . .60 Interim Plaza and Neighborhood Improvement Plan . .62 Long Term Plaza and Neighborhood Improvement Alternatives . .68 Shared Border Management Alternative . .68 South Plaza Alternative . .70 North Plaza Alternative . .73 Evaluation of Alternatives . .75 Conclusion: Shared Border Management . .80 Next Steps . .81 Queen City Waterfront Gateway Nodes: Analysis, Design Guidelines and Proposals . .83 Introduction . .83 Porter Avenue: Guidelines and Concept Proposals . .87 Erie Street: Guidelines and Concept Proposals . .93 Secondary Nodes . .98 Scajaquada/Niagara Street . .98 Virginia/Carolina Interchange . .98 Summary . .99 Implementation . .100 Introduction . .100 Setting Priorities . .100 Next Steps . .101 Conclusion . .102 Table of Contents III Queen City Waterfront Appendices A Bibliography of Plans B Participation History (Electronic) Newsletters Agency Meetings Workshops and Public Meetings Node Meetings Brochure Companion Volumes: Vol. 2 Waterfront Planning Inventory and Analysis Introduction and Explanation Part 1: Analysis of Project Goals Part 2: Preliminary Project Assessment Part 3: Project Site Abstracts Part 4: Bibliography of Plans Vol. 3 City of Buffalo Local Waterfront Revitalization Program Vol. 4 International Waterfront Gateway Neighborhood Improvement Program Part 1: Interim Plaza Part 2: Long Term Plaza Proposals Shared Border Management South Plaza North Plaza Vol. 5 Waterfront Gateway Node Description, Analysis and Design Guidelines Introduction Primary Nodes Porter Avenue: Analysis, Guidelines and Concept Proposals Erie Street: Analysis, Guidelines and Concept Proposals Secondary Nodes Scajaquada/Niagara: Analysis and Issues Virginia/Carolina: Analysis and Issues Vol. 6 Expanded Project Proposal – Erie Street Vol. 7 Expanded Project Proposal – Porter Avenue IV Table of Contents A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements Acknowledgements Wendel Duchscherer, Architects and Engineers served as the prime contractor to the City of Buffalo for the NYSDOT Buffalo Corridor Management Plan and its related implementation campaign known locally as the Waterfront Corridor Initiative. They were lead consultant on the following report volumes in association with the Urban Design Project and the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper: Volume 3: Local Waterfront Revitalization Program Volume 6: Expanded Project Proposal – Erie Street Volume 7: Expanded Project Proposal – Porter Avenue The Urban Design Project was lead consultant on the following report volumes in association with the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper and Wendel Duchscherer: Volume 1: Queen City Waterfront Volume 2: Waterfront Planning Inventory and Analysis Volume 4: International Waterfront Gateway Neighborhood Improvement Program Volume 5: Waterfront Gateway Node Description, Analysis, and Design Guidelines Additional consulting support is acknowledged in each volume of the final report on the Buffalo Corridor Management Project (NYSDOT Pin 5756.29). All graphics in Volume 1 that are not specifically credited are produced by the Urban Design Project. Acknowledgements V Queen City Waterfront Executive Summary OUTER HARBOR / SOUTH BUFFALO BUFFALO RIVER INNER HARBOR / DOWNTOWN economic development | environmental quality | public access | international gateway | efficient transportation | connected neighborhoods Citizens’ vision of the waterfront shows a continuous greenway with tree-lined streets connecting the waterfront to the Olmsted Park and Parkway System and adjacent neighborhoods. The Queen City Waterfront plan is based on a citizens active in planning, and dozens and clear and simple vision that Buffalo, once a dozens of durable proposals for action to waterfront city, will be a waterfront city once improve our waterfronts developed over the again. As a community, Buffalo is committed past thirty years. The vision is grounded in a to making its waterfronts more accessible methodical assessment of three important and environmentally healthy, to reconnecting bodies of work: what we have done; plans neighborhoods to our waterfronts and we have made; and policies we have set. getting best possible economic use from For the first time in three decades, them, and to improving the efficiency of our community aspirations for healthier, more waterfront transportation corridor and prosperous and more accessible waterfronts making sure it serves all our other goals. are supported by a draft Comprehensive Plan This plan is based on a great legacy of over for Buffalo, Queen City in the 21st Century, 120 plans on over eighty sites, all aimed at in its final stages of review and approval. achieving the great potential of our Even more importantly, they are supported by waterfronts. It incorporates detailed analytical a proposed City of Buffalo Local Waterfront and creative effort, the work of thousands of Revitalization Program (Volume 3), also under 2 Executive Summary A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements GATEWAY / WEST SIDE BLACK ROCK / SCAJAQUADA RIVERSIDE final review. The foundation for the City of reinforcing the LWRP policies. It contains an Buffalo Local Waterfront Revitalization enumeration of the projects both from our Program (LWRP) was established, in part, by legacy of plans and out of current work that the inventory of projects (analyzed in Volume can help us move toward achieving our 2) influencing the strategic plan for shared waterfront vision. The projects are transportation improvements, as well as by the organized by four categories: recent comprehensive engagement of citizens, achievements, emerging projects, projects agencies, and other stakeholders. The robust that need a push, and longer term visions. legal framework of the LWRP can carry the The vision for the waterfront is embodied in hopes and dreams of Buffalonians for the the full range of projects. transformation of its waterfront lands in This report also contains more detailed work concert with the transportation infrastructure. on key nodes not already strongly addressed The NYSDOT Buffalo Corridor Management in current planning reports. Proposals for the Plan, known as the Queen City Waterfront improvement of our International Gateway was developed with the LWRP as a Neighborhood Improvement Program (Volume complementary implementation guide 4) were developed, addressing both interim Executive Summary 3 Queen City Waterfront infrastructure and neighborhood improvements as well as presenting the long range vision for this important international gateway. Volume 5 includes a description and analysis of four other sites: Erie Street and Porter Avenue as primary nodes also have accompanying design guidelines, and the Virginia/Carolina/Niagara
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